SparkFun’s Free Day is nearly upon us…

As I’m sure many of you already now, today is January 7th. While that might not have any real significance normally, today this means that our favorite hobby supplier, SparkFun, is giving away up to $100,000 of electronic goodness. We know we have our shopping carts filled to the brim, and we’re sure that most of you do too. With the start of Free Day being roughly 10 minutes away, we recommend that everyone man their shopping carts…. This should be interesting…

I can’t even connect to the website (15 minutes before up to 5 minutes before go time). I really think it was great of sparkfun to do this, but since only 1000 people get in on the deal, most of us are spending today crying through our shattered free servo dreams.

I have been waiting patiently since the day they announced free day and gone through many different shopping cart combination. I got a good night sleep and set everything up at home so I could have all the bandwidth to visit sparkfun ninja style and instead I am at hackaday because they are down.

This is a GREAT hack. Ahem*cough*… How to DDOS a website. 1)Offer free shit at your selected time. 2)Sit back and laugh. 3)???? 4)PROFIT! Oh wait….nevermind, noone can get to your site, and that’s because you were giving it all away. Honestly , I just wanted to see how long it took.

Yeah, what’s fascinating here is that it said only $175 had been claimed so far. I think nobody’s getting in, period. I suppose this means it’s going to be the incredibly diligent/determined people that stick around for a few hours who actually get the loot.